Homebrew PCBs

Of course!

SMD needs a hot air tool, not a desoldering tool. I missed that.

Contrary to the desoldering tool the AOYUE (and clones, xytronics
etc.) hot air tool works great. I have one at work and one at home, no
real complaints about either. These cost 50-100eur and make SMD rework
really easy.

ST

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Dylan Smith <dyls@...> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2008, Steve wrote:
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>> Desoldering stations seem to start in the $200 range and go up from
>> there. What features and functionality should I look for in a
>> desoldering station?
>
> This may seem like heresy, but it works for me: a B&Q hot air gun. (B&Q is
> a home improvement store chain, if you're not somewhere in Britain or
> Ireland). I have had great success using this inexpensive hot air gun on
> SMD and through hole boards, both for recovering components off redundant
> kit that I want to use later, and for reworking and repair, and even
> soldering new components on with solder paste. Its low setting is 260
> celcius.
>
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